Schulze has been mulling over several options including going private and selling his 20 percent stake in the company

Best Buy has been in hot water for awhile now due to its inability to compete with Internet retailers, and the company's founder is looking to take Best Buy private with the help of former executives.

Richard Schulze, founder of Best Buy, is currently looking to bring former Best Buy executives onboard to help him take the company private. He hasn't reached any agreements with anyone so far, but he is in talks with two people in particular: former Chief Executive Officer Brad Anderson and Senior Vice President of Enterprise Capabilities J.D. Wilson, whose position is being eliminated.

Ever since, Schulze has been mulling over several options including going private and selling his 20 percent stake in the company.

However, analysts say going private won't be so easy. About $1-$2 billion would need to be raised from a private-equity firm and another $7-$8 billion in debt would need to be raised. It would be difficult to get investors to sell when a takeover would cost about $30 per share, giving it a value of $11 billion.

Best Buy has has problems ever since Internet retailers like Amazon hit the scene, offering cheaper prices for the same items and low shipping costs. Amazon, at the time, wasn't collecting taxes in very many states either (however, the company recently agreed to collect sales tax in more states in exchange for more distribution centers -- ultimately allowing same-day shipping rates for customers, which could potentially hurt Best Buy even more).

Best Buy was forced to close 50 of its stores back in March/April. With store closings came lay-offs of 400 corporate and support jobs at that time, and then another 2,400 jobs were axed earlier this month. Things aren't looking so hot for the brick-and-mortar retailer, and Schulze is looking to act fast.

CDs. Lots of them. How much does a CD "cost" to manufacture, not much. How much did they sell them for?? $12-18. Remember the CD stores in the mall?? Where are most of them, now??

Music was a bread and butter for these places. BB doesn't margin in quantity on its other products the way it used to in music, movies, video games. Red Box, Netflix, iTunes, Pandora, Cable and Direct TV onDemand, then your Amazon and newEgg, XBox Live etc.. AT&T, Sprint and VW stores selling exactly the same phones at exactly the same price.

As consumers become more and more techy, B&M that used to abuse tech ignorance will start to fail. BB simply was doing better at the time than Circuit City, otherwise it would have fallen just the same.

Oh there is still tech ignorance out there, it just doesn't buy CDs and DVD's in bulk any more.

Yeah the other side of the equation with BB, and the others that people have mentioned using the store pick up model. Is they all use a huge retail mark up. Only way to get around it, is work for em, when I did you get 15% or 5% above cost, whichever was better. Cold hard reality is, they need to lower prices, to compete with some Etailers and other lower margin stores like wal-mart.